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Totalitarianism
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A government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of the public and private life
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Great Purge
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A campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who has threatened Hitler's power
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Command Economy
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A system in which the government makes all the economic decisions
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Five-Year Plans
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Economic plans that set impossibly high quotas, or goals, to increase the output of steel, coal, oil and electricity
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Collective Farms
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Large government-owned farms
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Weimar Republic
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Germany's democratic government that was set up in 1919
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Coalition Government
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Temporary alliance of several parties
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Great Depression
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The severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929
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Fascism
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The militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader
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Benito Mussolini
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A newspaper editor and politician who became a totalitarian leader of Italy
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Adolf Hitler
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the totalitarian leader, and Chancellor of Germany
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Nazism
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The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority and state control of industry
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Mein Kampf
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"My Struggle"--a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany
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Lebensraum
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"Living space"-- the additional territory that according to Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded
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Appeasement
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The making of concessions to an agressor in order to avoid war
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Axis Powers
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In Word War II the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan which had formed an alliance
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Third Reich
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The third German empire established by Hitler in the 1930's
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Munich Conference
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A meeting of representatives in which Britian and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Hitler's pledge to respect Czechoslovakia's new borders.
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Japanese Militarists
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Extreme nationalists who wanted to solve the country's economic problems through foreign expansion
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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The peace pact that almost every country in the world signed that pledged "to renounce war as an instrument of national policy"
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